Honeynet Project to Trap Spider Attackers and Name Names"The Web Honeynet Project, an independent group of Honeynet researchers from Securiteam...they plan to name not only the spider attack details, but also to divulge the IP addresses and other tracking information about the attackers themselves."

Project Honey Pot files $1B+ Lawsuit Against Spammers and Spambots"On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:54am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the suit was brought on behalf of our members. It targets a huge swath of spammers. If you've harvested email addresses or sent spam in the last two years, chances are you're on our radar screen and we're coming after you."

Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Released on New IPs"The new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 recognizes the same user-agent and all robots.txt directives for 'Yahoo! Slurp,' though it'll identify itself as Slurp 3.0 in your web logs."

Updating The htaccess Bot Ban list"I'm sure most of us are familiar with the classic .httacces bad bot ban list for .htaccess that gets copied and pasted wholesale from web developer forum to forum (e.g.: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum13/687.htm )"

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Facebook Sues Data Scraper"Warden gathered that data from public profiles using "crawling" software similar to what's commonly available on the Web..."